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Friedrich Jeckeln

1895 - 1946

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Friedrich August Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German Nazi Party member, police official and SS-Obergruppenführer during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in Germany and in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest groups of Einsatzgruppen death squads and was personally responsible for ordering and organising the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Romani and others designated by the Nazis as "undesirables". After the end of the war in Europe, Jeckeln was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga and executed by hanging. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Jeckeln is the 58th most popular extremist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 1,042nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Extremist.

Friedrich Jeckeln was a Nazi officer who was in charge of the Einsatzgruppen, which was a mobile killing squad that traveled to villages and executed people by shooting them or by hanging them.

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Among extremists, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 58 out of 283. Before him are Abu Nidal, Mohamed Atta, Butch Cassidy, Pavlik Morozov, Tex Watson, and Karl Denke. After him are Gary Gilmore, Dennis Rader, Edmund Kemper, Fritz Haarmann, Tommaso Buscetta, and Henri Désiré Landru.

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Among people born in 1895, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 71. Before him are Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Edna Purviance, Clara Haskil, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, Pavel Sukhoi, and Wilhelm Gustloff. After him are Robert Graves, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, Marcel Pagnol, Lin Yutang, Ferdinand Čatloš, and Choudhry Rahmat Ali. Among people deceased in 1946, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 44. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Sr., Milan Nedić, Helene Schjerfbeck, Vojtech Tuka, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Ignacy Mościcki. After him are Döme Sztójay, Francisco Largo Caballero, Gustav Noske, Otto Georg Thierack, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Clemens August Graf von Galen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 1,042 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), August Kopff (1882), Boris Becker (1967), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), and Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831). After him are William II of Württemberg (1848), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Klaus Nomi (1944), Bruno of Querfurt (970), and Albert of Riga (1165).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 6. Before him are Frederick Trump (1869), Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), and Peter Kürten (1883). After him are Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Fritz Honka (1935), Willi Herold (1925), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), and Monika Ertl (1937).

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